See also:GUILLAUME See also:POYET (1473–1548)
, See also:French See also:magistrate, was See also:born at See also:Angers
.
After practising successfully as a See also:barrister at Angers and See also:Paris, he was instructed by See also:Louise of See also:Savoy, See also:mother of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, See also:Francis I., to uphold her rights against the See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable de See also:Bourbon in 1521
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This was the beginning of his fortunes
.
Through the See also:influence of the See also:queen-mother he obtained the posts of See also:advocate-See also:general (1530) and See also:president of the See also:parlement of Paris (1534), and became See also:chancellor of See also:France in 1538
.
He was responsible for the legal reform contained in the See also:ordinance of Villers-Cotterets (1539), the See also:object of which was to shorten See also:procedure
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This ordered the keeping of registers of baptisms and deaths, and enjoined the exclusive use of the French See also:language in legal procedure
.
With the See also:con-See also:stable de See also:Montmorency he organized an intrigue to ruin See also:Admiral See also:Chabot, and procured his condemnation in 1541; but after the admiral was pardoned, See also:Poyet was himself thrown into See also:prison, deprived of his offices, and sentenced to a See also:fine of See also:ioo,000 livres
.
He recovered his See also:liberty in 1545, and died in See also:April 1548
.
See C
.
Poree, See also:Guillaume Poyet (Angers, 1898)
.
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